[hibernate-dev] To identify the version of Hibernate ORM at runtime

All, it looks like people get easily confused by which version of ORM is compatible with - for example - Hibernate Search. The expected versions are documented plenty, in readme, project sources, documentation and we even remind about the expectations frequently in blog posts. Wondering if it would be more effective to have some marker in ORM, to validate at least for most critical known incompatibilities at runtime? I realize there is no 100% foolproof in any possible solution, but providing a nice error message to 90% of these cases could be helpful to a large population already, and doesn't seem too complex for us to do. I guess it could be simple enough to use the existing org.hibernate.Version ? Or we could improve on those methods, if not actually adding some easy to consume resource in the orm jars. WDYT? Sanne - https://hibernate.atlassian.net/browse/HSEARCH-1816 - http://stackoverflow.com/questions/28736785/org-hibernate-impl-sessionimp...